It's Michelle Dignan with you from 2pm 🥳 Is it too early for Christmas decorations? 🎄 Hear from Bolton actress Claire Moore on Scrooge Lowry 🎭 Get budget food tips with chef Charlotte Pike MBE 🍲 Listen live on BBC Sounds 🎧 bbc.in/manclistenlive

Thank you so much to the whole team at The Merrion Hotel for another outstanding stay. It is the most spoiling, special place to stay. I love that they’ve thought through every detail in the bedrooms and having my room beautifully tidied before I retire for the night. Such a treat 💚

Did you know vanilla is actually an orchid? Or that most of the flavouring we eat is actually made synthetically from petrol (!)? All that, plus how it went from aphrodisiac to byword for boring, in my latest for The Food Chain BBC World Service out now 🍦 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3…

Thank you to Books For Cooks for hosting my Quick Prep Slow Cookbook launch this week. And how nice to share the window with Tom Parker Bowles excellent new book, Cooking & The Crown Octopus Publishing

It was a privilege to represent Invest NI at the recent Irish Food Writing Awards The Irish Food Writing Awards🇺🇦🇵🇸 & present the Food and Drink Magazine Award sponsored by #InvestNI to Madeleine Lyons from Irish Times Food & to see so many friends old & new #IFWA24

Always a pleasure to speak to Michelle Dignan on BBC Manchester. Today, we chatted about get-ahead Christmas food prep. You can listen back on BBC Sounds

So delighted to have worked on this. Do have a read - lots of advice within👇 VisitScotland News

I really hope that the Lakeland magic isn’t lost. Some of the products they sell are really good and no-one else sells anything quite like them.

So excited to be heading to Derry tomorrow for the LegenDerry month of food

We love seeing awards resting at home. This is Ciara O’Hartghaile’s award for Best Food Blog/Substack for “Gorse” in Ursa Minor Bakehouse. Thank you Charlotte Pike MBE for judging this award and Pestle + Mortar Sauces for sponsoring. Who will win in 2025? ✨🏆#foodwriting #thisisirishfood

Happy St. Patrick’s Day to my treasured Irish friends. Thank you for always welcoming me so warmly - I always feel so at home in Ireland. Looking for some brilliant Irish food & drink writing to read today and any day? Do check out The Irish Food Writing Awards🇺🇦🇵🇸 for whom I am a proud judge ☘️

Looking forward to visiting IFE tomorrow. Do get in touch if you’re there, too.

Bono pays tribute to EJ. Produced by the team at Whisper. Many of whom have worked with EJ for years from right back on the BBC days. This one was personal…

So special #RapeseedOil🐝🌾🚜 🙌👏

A joy to watch ☀️💐

I’m very pleased to let those of you who are U.S. based know that my latest book Quick Prep Slow Cook is currently on special offer on Kindle for $1.99. Here’s the link: amazon.com/Quick-Prep-Slo… Octopus Publishing hhb agency ltd

Are you a food journalist, photographer, writer or blogger? Entries for our 2025 awards are now open!✨🏆 irishfoodwritingawards.ie🍴✍🏻

Who will take away awards for the best writing, books, photography, podcasts and social on Irish food and drink 🏆 Entries for #IFWA25 in The RDS close this weekend irishfoodwritingawards.ie

I’ve had a little refresh over on my website. It’s charlottepike.co.uk if you’d like to have a look.

A huge thank you to the kind man in a Ranger who stopped to help me just now. I struck some debris and my front offside tyre went on the A31 in the middle of the New Forest with no hard shoulder, layby, phone signal or signs to pinpoint location. So appreciated his help.